- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty Quotes
On hardship, pretense, and the thin line between struggle and ruin.
These quotes describe poverty as something felt rather than just discussed—its nearness to wealth in some places, the pretense people keep up to hide it, and the social programs built to hold it back. See our poverty slogans for another angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.
- Numbers
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When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.
- No Regrets
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame. We come from very similar backgrounds - poverty. That's something that we can both relate to, something that we can convey in our music.
- Damn
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's a modern-day ghost town.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
- Education Programs
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people abroad know Lula's campaigns against poverty and hunger, but he had a tremendous legacy in education too. He invested 2 percent of GDP, more than other administration, putting the PT's education programs in motion.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020